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Mystery of the ashen light of Venus : investigating a 400-year-old phenomenon / / John C. Barentine
| Mystery of the ashen light of Venus : investigating a 400-year-old phenomenon / / John C. Barentine |
| Autore | Barentine John C. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Disciplina | 523.42 |
| Collana | Astronomers' Universe |
| ISBN | 3-030-72715-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Prologue: The Martians That Never Were -- 2 ``I Could See the Dark Part of Venus…'' -- Venus in Myth and Tradition -- Galileo Discovers the Phases of Venus -- 3 First Light: Early Accounts of the Ashen Light 1643-1800 -- The Observations of Giovanni Riccioli (1643) -- Early Accounts: 1700-1800 -- William Derham (c. 1700) -- Christfried Kirch (1721) -- Andreas Mayer (1759) -- William Herschel (1793) -- Friedrich von Hahn (1793) -- 4 Going Mainstream: A Scientific Approach c. 1800-1900 -- Johann Hieronymus Schröter and Karl Ludwig Harding(1806) -- Johann Wilhelm Pastorff (1822) -- Franz von Paula Gruithuisen (1825) -- The Later Nineteenth Century -- 5 What Is the Light? Historical Explanations of the Ashen Light -- Reflected Light -- Aurorae -- `Extended Twilight' -- Surface or Atmospheric Phosphorescence -- Thermal Emission -- Surface Ice -- Scattered Light and Diffraction Effects -- 6 Venus as a Knowable World: Chasing the Ashen Light into the Space Age 1900-1980 -- Daylight Observations -- The Barbier Campaign (1935) -- Nikolai Kozyrev and the Venus Airglow -- The International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) -- The Early Spacecraft Era -- 7 New Ideas for an Old Problem: Observations and Science 1980-2020 -- The Phillips and Russell Campaign (1988) -- Lightning in the Venusian Dark -- Active Volcanism -- Airglow Revived: New Observations of the ``Green Line'' -- To the Limits of Human Visual Perception -- 8 Seeing What We Want to See: The Psychology of the Ashen Light -- The Discovery of Neptune -- The Cautionary Tale of `Vulcan' -- 9 Perception Revisited: The Psychophysics of the Ashen Light -- The Effects of Observer Bias -- Down the (Duck-)Rabbit Hole of Vision Science -- Accurate and illusory? -- 10 Epilogue: Evanescence and Evasion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996466732603316 |
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2021] | ||
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Mystery of the ashen light of Venus : investigating a 400-year-old phenomenon / / John C. Barentine
| Mystery of the ashen light of Venus : investigating a 400-year-old phenomenon / / John C. Barentine |
| Autore | Barentine John C. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Disciplina | 523.42 |
| Collana | Astronomers' Universe |
| ISBN | 3-030-72715-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Prologue: The Martians That Never Were -- 2 ``I Could See the Dark Part of Venus…'' -- Venus in Myth and Tradition -- Galileo Discovers the Phases of Venus -- 3 First Light: Early Accounts of the Ashen Light 1643-1800 -- The Observations of Giovanni Riccioli (1643) -- Early Accounts: 1700-1800 -- William Derham (c. 1700) -- Christfried Kirch (1721) -- Andreas Mayer (1759) -- William Herschel (1793) -- Friedrich von Hahn (1793) -- 4 Going Mainstream: A Scientific Approach c. 1800-1900 -- Johann Hieronymus Schröter and Karl Ludwig Harding(1806) -- Johann Wilhelm Pastorff (1822) -- Franz von Paula Gruithuisen (1825) -- The Later Nineteenth Century -- 5 What Is the Light? Historical Explanations of the Ashen Light -- Reflected Light -- Aurorae -- `Extended Twilight' -- Surface or Atmospheric Phosphorescence -- Thermal Emission -- Surface Ice -- Scattered Light and Diffraction Effects -- 6 Venus as a Knowable World: Chasing the Ashen Light into the Space Age 1900-1980 -- Daylight Observations -- The Barbier Campaign (1935) -- Nikolai Kozyrev and the Venus Airglow -- The International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) -- The Early Spacecraft Era -- 7 New Ideas for an Old Problem: Observations and Science 1980-2020 -- The Phillips and Russell Campaign (1988) -- Lightning in the Venusian Dark -- Active Volcanism -- Airglow Revived: New Observations of the ``Green Line'' -- To the Limits of Human Visual Perception -- 8 Seeing What We Want to See: The Psychology of the Ashen Light -- The Discovery of Neptune -- The Cautionary Tale of `Vulcan' -- 9 Perception Revisited: The Psychophysics of the Ashen Light -- The Effects of Observer Bias -- Down the (Duck-)Rabbit Hole of Vision Science -- Accurate and illusory? -- 10 Epilogue: Evanescence and Evasion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910502636103321 |
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Barentine John C.
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2021] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Venus and Mercury, and how to observe them [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Grego
| Venus and Mercury, and how to observe them [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Grego |
| Autore | Grego Peter |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2008.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Springer, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina | 523.42 |
| Collana | Astronomers' observing guides |
| Soggetto topico | Inner planets |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-13912-2
9786611139124 0-387-74286-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | – A Perspective on Mercury and Venus -- – A Perspective on Mercury and Venus -- Current Knowledge of Mercury and Venus -- Our Current Knowledge of Mercury -- Our Current Knowledge of Venus -- Observing Mercury and Venus -- Equipment for Observing Mercury and Venus -- Recording Mercury and Venus -- Observing Mercury -- Observing Venus. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450934003321 |
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Grego Peter
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| New York, : Springer, c2008 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Venus and Mercury, and how to observe them [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Grego
| Venus and Mercury, and how to observe them [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Grego |
| Autore | Grego Peter |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2008.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Springer, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina | 523.42 |
| Collana | Astronomers' observing guides |
| Soggetto topico | Inner planets |
| ISBN |
1-281-13912-2
9786611139124 0-387-74286-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | – A Perspective on Mercury and Venus -- – A Perspective on Mercury and Venus -- Current Knowledge of Mercury and Venus -- Our Current Knowledge of Mercury -- Our Current Knowledge of Venus -- Observing Mercury and Venus -- Equipment for Observing Mercury and Venus -- Recording Mercury and Venus -- Observing Mercury -- Observing Venus. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777306803321 |
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Grego Peter
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| New York, : Springer, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Venus and Mercury, and how to observe them [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Grego
| Venus and Mercury, and how to observe them [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Grego |
| Autore | Grego Peter |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2008.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Springer, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina | 523.42 |
| Collana | Astronomers' observing guides |
| Soggetto topico | Inner planets |
| ISBN |
1-281-13912-2
9786611139124 0-387-74286-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | – A Perspective on Mercury and Venus -- – A Perspective on Mercury and Venus -- Current Knowledge of Mercury and Venus -- Our Current Knowledge of Mercury -- Our Current Knowledge of Venus -- Observing Mercury and Venus -- Equipment for Observing Mercury and Venus -- Recording Mercury and Venus -- Observing Mercury -- Observing Venus. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822215003321 |
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Grego Peter
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| New York, : Springer, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Venus Express : results of the nominal mission / [prepared] by American Geophysical Union
| Venus Express : results of the nominal mission / [prepared] by American Geophysical Union |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : American Geophysical Union, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 553 p. : ill. ; 29 cm |
| Disciplina | 523.4/2 |
| Altri autori (Enti) | American Geophysical Union |
| Soggetto topico | Planets |
| Classificazione |
LC QB621
52.9.5(08) |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991002765789707536 |
| Washington, D.C. : American Geophysical Union, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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The Venus tablets of Ammizaduga / by John D. Weir
| The Venus tablets of Ammizaduga / by John D. Weir |
| Autore | Weir John D |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Istanbul : , : Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut in het Nabije Oosten, , 1972 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 80 pages) |
| Collana | Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te İstanbul |
| Soggetto topico | Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Observations. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910586695703321 |
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Weir John D
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| Istanbul : , : Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut in het Nabije Oosten, , 1972 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Venus tablets of Ammizaduga / by John D. Weir
| The Venus tablets of Ammizaduga / by John D. Weir |
| Autore | Weir John D |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Istanbul : , : Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut in het Nabije Oosten, , 1972 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 80 pages) |
| Collana | Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te İstanbul |
| Soggetto topico | Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Observations. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996483566803316 |
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Weir John D
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| Istanbul : , : Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut in het Nabije Oosten, , 1972 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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